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East face of the Crazy Mountains in the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana (2015)

Montana (/mɒnˈtænə/ ^ⓘ) is a state in the Mountain West sub-region of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north. It is the fourth-largest state by area, the eighth-least populous state, and the third-least densely populated state. Its capital is Helena, while the most populous city is Billings. The western half of the state contains numerous mountain ranges, while the eastern half is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands, with smaller mountain ranges found throughout the state.

Montana has no official nickname but several unofficial ones, most notably "Big Sky Country", "The Treasure State", "Land of the Shining Mountains", and "The Last Best Place". Its economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, mining, and lumber. The health care, service, and government sectors are also significant to the state's economy. Montana's fastest-growing sector is tourism, with 12.6 million tourists (as of 2019) visiting the state each year. (Full article...)

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Official portrait, 2017

Gregory Richard Gianforte (/ˌdʒi.ənˈfɔːrteɪ/ JEE-ən-FOR-tay; born April 17, 1961) is an American businessman, politician, software engineer, and writer serving as the 25th governor of Montana since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Gianforte served as the U.S. representative for Montana's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2021.

In 1997, Gianforte and his wife, Susan, co-founded RightNow Technologies, a customer relationship management software company. The company went public in 2004; by that time, it employed over 1,000 workers. RightNow Technologies was acquired by Oracle Corporation for $1.5 billion in 2011. (Full article...)

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Wigger in 1964

Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937, Great Falls, Montana – December 14, 2017, Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an American sports shooter. Wigger was a member of the United States Olympic team on three occasions, winning two Olympic Gold Medals. He also served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel.

Wigger is often regarded as having been the greatest competitive rifle shooter ever to have taken aim for the United States. He made every Olympic Shooting Team between 1968 and 1980, he held or co-held 27 world records – 14 team and 13 individual. He won 58 National Championships of almost every variety beginning in 1963. He was a member of 16 major U.S. international teams, starting with the 1963 Pan-American Games and his record includes: 22 World Championships (two individual, 20 team); seven Pan-American titles; 18 victories in the Championship of the Americas meet; 16 victories in the Council Internationale Sport du Militaire meet; and in those four meets, plus the Olympics, he won 108 medals. (Full article...)

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Image 1Missoula, the second-largest city in Montana (from Montana)
Image 2Montana population density map (from Montana)
Image 3Map of domestic flights available from the largest airport in Montana (Click to enlarge) (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 4Montana Rail Link freight haulage in 2005 (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 5U.S. Route 93 in Montana (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 6Mennonite family in Montana, c. 1937 (from Montana)
Image 7Chief Joseph (from History of Montana)
Image 8Mountain Line buses queue to pick up passengers in Missoula. (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 9Yellowstone Airport, West Yellowstone, Montana (from Montana)
Image 10Clark Fork River, Missoula, in autumn (from Montana)
Image 11Map of Montana (from Montana)
Image 12Pretty Nose at Fort Keogh, 1879 (from History of Montana)
Image 13Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Deer Lodge, MT, date unknown (from History of Montana)
Image 14Swedish gold panners in 1860s Montana. The Montana gold rush began in 1862. (from History of Montana)
Image 15General locations of Indian reservations in Montana (from Montana)
Image 16Assiniboine family, Montana, 1890–91 (from Montana)
Image 17Montana Territory in 1865 (from Montana)
Image 18Click to enlarge detailed map (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 19Mining headframes in Butte, MT (from History of Montana)
Image 20Pompeys Pillar National Monument (from Montana)
Image 21The Empire Builder in Essex (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 22The Scout in Winter, Crow, 1908 by Edward S. Curtis (from History of Montana)
Image 23Montana State Bobcats football at Bobcat Stadium (Montana State University), Bozeman (from Montana)
Image 24Jeannette Rankin, August 1916 (from History of Montana)
Image 25Chief Joseph and Col. John Gibbon met again on the Big Hole Battlefield site in 1889. (from Montana)
Image 26Buffalo Soldiers, Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890. The nickname was given to the "Black Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought. (from Montana)
Image 27From Frank Bond, "Louisiana" and the Louisiana Purchase.
Government Printing Office, 1912 Map No. 4. (from History of Montana)
Image 28Köppen climate types of Montana, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from Montana)
Image 29Dancers at Crow Fair in 1941 (from Montana)
Image 30The Palisades area on the north end of the ski area at Red Lodge Mountain Resort (from Montana)
Image 31Quake Lake was created by a landslide during the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake. (from Montana)
Image 32Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park (from Montana)
Image 33Guided snowmobile tours in Yellowstone Park (from Montana)
Image 34Relief map of Montana (from Montana)
Image 35Early Indian treaty territories in Montana (from Montana)
Image 36Lone Mountain at Big Sky Ski Resort (from Montana)
Image 37Missouri Breaks region in central Montana (from Montana)
Image 38Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Montana)
Image 39Stump Horn and family (Northern Cheyenne); showing home and horse-drawn travois. (from History of Montana)

Map of counties in Montana by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

Legend

Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Native American

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

(from Montana)

Image 41Early tribal treaty territories in Montana (from History of Montana)
Image 42Joseph M. Dixon, Congressman (1903–1913) and Governor of Montana (1921–1925) (from History of Montana)
Image 43Population of Montana 1870–2018 (from Montana)
Image 44The Big Sky Resort (from Montana)
Image 46An Airbus A319 waits at Billings Logan International Airport. (from Transportation in Montana)
Image 47Montana ranks 2nd nationally in craft breweries per capita. (from Montana)
Image 48Map of Williston Basin oil fields with reservoirs in Bakken Formation (from History of Montana)
Image 49Temperature and precipitation for Montana's capital city, Helena (from Montana)
Image 50Ethnic origins in Montana (from Montana)
Image 51First Interstate Center, in downtown Billings, is the tallest building in Montana. (from Montana)
Image 52Main Street in Red Lodge, 2000, showing iron facades on buildings (from History of Montana)

Did you know -

... that Montana television station KOPR-TV brought forward its start date by several months, only to last just one year?
... that Kane Ioane finished his playing career at Montana State as the Big Sky Conference's all-time tackles leader?
... that 16 Montana youths are plaintiffs in the lawsuit Held v. Montana, the first constitutional climate change lawsuit to go to trial in the United States?
... that campaign literature in the 1894 Montana capital referendum accused Helena residents of copious Manhattan consumption?
... that one owner of Montana radio station KXGF went from owning a stake in a waterbed dealership to liquidating his assets in a span of six months?
... that a "North Dakota joke of the mornin'" was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?

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